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GENUS PASPALUM

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Meaning:

A genus of perennial grasses of warm regions

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Paspalum" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Paspalum"):

dallis grass; dallisgrass; paspalum; Paspalum dilatatum (tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States)

Bahia grass; Paspalum notatum (perennial tropical American grass used as pasture grass in arid areas of the Gulf States)

knotgrass; Paspalum distichum (low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems)

Holonyms ("genus Paspalum" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

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